When he went to a ‘local hostelry’ to quench his thirst he probably wasn’t expecting it to be the part of the trip that he would end up telling people about.

His short message to the Daily telegraph read: “Sir – During a recent visit in Ireland, I visited a local hostelry to enjoy an Irish coffee and asked for their Wi-Fi password. Ingeniously it was tipthebarman.

“I complied.”

It’s nice to know that you can even find examples of great Irish humour subtly tucked away in Wi-Fi passwords, and we’re glad to see that David ‘complied’.